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Conda failing to install VEP

I'm trying to install VEP in a conda environment, but it keeps failing. I've tried with the normal installation process:

conda install -c bioconda ensembl-vep

But get the below errors which run for about an hour and eventually fail:

$ conda install -c bioconda ensembl-vep
Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done
Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.
Solving environment: failed with repodata from current_repodata.json, will retry with next repodata source.
Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done
Solving environment: | ^[failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.
Solving environment: -

I've also tried creating a new environment and installing, but still fail.

conda create -n ensembl-vep -c conda-forge -c ensembl-vep

Any more ideas anyone??

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An update, a few more lines of errors have appeared, and still running ...

$ conda install -c bioconda ensembl-vep
Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done
Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.
Solving environment: failed with repodata from current_repodata.json, will retry with next repodata source.
Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done
Solving environment: | ^[failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.
Solving environment: - 
Found conflicts! Looking for incompatible packages.
This can take several minutes.  Press CTRL-C to abort.
Examining conflict for picard alabaster pygments pywavelets conda-package-handling xlrd py-lief python_abi xopen lxml conda-env pluggy pylint sortedcollections bab
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Have you tried to use mamba? Usually it solves conda problems

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